Wellington - A stranded orca whale was given a 43-kilometre trailer ride across Auckland city's roads on Saturday to be returned to the sea because weather conditions were better on the eastern coa

Wellington - About 10,000 people, mainly Asian immigrants, staged a march through suburban Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, on Saturday calling for a crackdown on violent crime following three

Singapore - Wildlife groups fear the pangolin, once common across Asia, is being systematically wiped out and could become extinct unless governments do more to stop poaching, they said in a publi

Singapore - Providing jobs and services for the 1.1 billion people expected to move to Asia's cities over the next 20 years is a task of a magnitude "never before attempted by humanity," Asian Deve

Taipei - Selected areas of Taipei, along with neighbourhoods in Beijing and dozens of cities elsewhere in Asia, are planning to turn off their lights for one hour later Saturday to promote energy c

Singapore  - Defence minister and senior officials from 27 countries agreed on "norms of behaviour" for offering disaster relief amid the slow pace of delivering international aid supplies to cyclo